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Cnossen, Sijbren - 2020

foster economic growth. The Member States of the European Union (EU) should be allowed to replace their defective VATs with a …

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Efficiency of European Universities : A Comparison of Peers

Herberholz, Lars - 2020

The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....

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Is Hard Brexit Detrimental to EU Integration? Theory and Evidence

Mikolajun, Irena - 2018

leave the European Union (EU). In this paper we evaluate the consequences of this event for EU integration. In particular …, we analyze how the extent of EU economic integration would change once the UK leaves the Union. To that end we develop an … in the EU is incomplete and its trend is non-linear while Brexit would not bring negative consequences to its development …

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Is Western European Agriculture Resilient to High Temperatures?

Massetti, Emanuele - 2019

We estimate a Ricardian model of Western European agricultural land values using farm-level data. We model the effect of temperature on land values using a flexible specification of daily mean temperature to test if there are temperature threshold effects. Results indicate that there are no...

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Future European Alliance - Europe as a Flexible Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2019

A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...

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Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies

Ginsburgh, Victor - 2020

The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...

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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019

About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on...

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Persistence, Non-Linearities and Structural Breaks in European Stock Market Indices

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019

This paper examines persistence, structural breaks and non-linearities in the case of five European stock market indices, namely the FTSE100 (UK), DAX30 (Germany), CAC40 (France), IBEX35 (Spain) and FTSE MIB40 (Italy), using fractional integration methods. The empirical results provide no...

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Kalã²S Kai Agathã²S? Government Quality and Cultural Heritage in the Regions of Europe

Bertacchini, Enrico - 2019

This paper uses panel data on over 200 regions of Europe to study the spatial distribution of UNESCO sites and the capacity of regional governments to conserve heritage, using new designations in the World Heritage List as a proxy. We test whether the location of a region matters by controlling...

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Quantifying Brexit : From Ex Post to Ex Ante Using Structural Gravity

Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2020

general equilibrium model that captures inter- and intranational production networks. We isolate three important layers of EU … integration for the UK: First, we distinguish directional treatment heterogeneity in the relation between the UK and the EU27 … economies. Second, we disentangle tariff and non-tariff barriers in EU agreements affecting the UK, which show differential …

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